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Letters Patent No. 69,019, dated September 17, 1867.` i

i CONDUCTORS TICKET-PUNGII.

TO ALL WIIOM IT MAY CONCERN: f Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. Puntrs, ot' Springfield, in the county of Hampden, and -Commonwealthof Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Punches of the class knownand used asTicket- Punches; and I dolierehy declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to thennncxed drawings, making a part of' this specification, undA to thc l'etters of reference marked 1thereon,` wherccfv i Figure l is`an elevation of said punch, i f

Figure 2 is a reverse pl'an,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section,

Figure 4 is a plan of one of the levers detached, undk Figure 5 is arevcxse plan of the other lever B, also detached.

My invention consists in attaching to one of the levers of a ticket-punehu die-spindle, which is pivoted to the lever, and operates asa plunger in reference to n female die sented in the otherlevcr of the punch, the latter lever being slotted for the reception of the ticket to be punched. The two levcrsor orms'of the punch are kept apart by o. spiral spring, and a finger-loop is cast upon the slotted lever in convenient form for suspending the punch from thenger when not in use. i

The construction of my invention is ns follows: The lever B which carries the die-spindle `is mrrvedtat a for convenience of handling, and is made of less thickness from 'the shoulders K K to the end, being mndetc fit a recess, ff', cut in the other lever. Small ears y g project from the inner side of B, und one end of ,th die-spindle h is formed to enter the spacer between. the ears, and turns upon the pin or rivet x which passer` through the ears and the spindle. A hole in the semicircular projection z" receives the pin z' which holdsth` two levers, A and B, together, und is the fulcrum about which they turn. The lever A has the n'ger-loop b t e formed upon it, thc loop being cast as a part of thcllever in place of a ring riveted thereto, .as appears in some forms of ticket-punches. The longitudinal recess ff is formed so as to receive the narrowed portion o1 the lever B, and openings to receive the pin z are formed in thc sides of this recess. A slot, n, is cut in thf` lower side of A, of suicient width to receive a ticket or strip of pasteboerdLthe outer end of thc slot heing madearng, so as to facilitate the insertion of the ticket whicliis to be punched. The die-spindle lt passes` through an opening, p, formed in that part o"A above the` slot n, the shape of the inner surface,ofp being made to correspond with thc shape of the dic-spindle, so as to act as an accurate guide for the latter as it if in'oved to and from the female die m. In that part of the lever A which isbelow the ticket-slot. n, and `which]` denominate the lip s, is formed the opening p', immediately beneath and in the same vaxial liuewith the opening p. 'If the lever A is made of `brass or other soft metal, a steel dic-plate, m, is set into the surface of the lip` s, but if the lever is runde of' steel, or other metal of suiicient hardnessthe female die will he formedin thelip` itself in place ot' the separate die-plate m. The end of the dic-spindlc t, which e'cts as cutter, 'is formed in any shape desired, either-in the form of a device of fancy or of un initial letter,`ii'fl )eingl generally the case thai di'erent persons employed in cancelling tickets upon the same route have punchcs'of different confgurationiin order that the work of cach may be distinguished. The contour of the female die is made to correspond exactly with that of the male die, andthe edges of both -are carefully formed, so as to make a sharp and clean cut when the male die is made to `enter the female die, The eutting end of .7L is also made concave, to produce a shearing cut instead of nn abrupt cut. The openingp lgclow the die-plate is made large enough to allow the fragment ni paper c ut from thetick-et to pass ont without clogging the opening. To throw the'levers A and :Blepartnl spiral spring, C, is applied, ono end being placed in a recess, o, iu the lever A, and the other endin thevrecess e in the lever B. The pai-tj upon the lever A meets a shoulder formed on the lever Band prevents' the` levers from opening too widely; As it is necessary that the die-spindle tshouldmove in aright line with the axis oi thc openings p and p', it is necessary to make the opening in B, through which `the fulcrum or pint' passes, elongated, so as to allow a slight longitudinal movement of the lever B in reference to the other -lever A.

I .am-aware that the vformation-of the ticket-slot nfinthe lever A -is a device in use in other ticket-punches, and I do not claim the same as apart of my invention; nor do I claim as new thegencral arrangemcnt'of-the levers A and B and their application to one another, when considered apart from the arrangement of theides` Gagne 2 die L pivoted between :the ears g g, and :toting as u. male die (through the opening p) irl-reference to the le die et m. I I

What I therefore claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The combination of the lever B and die-spindle h pivoted thereto; with the slotted lever AA, guide 29, and

Lledie m, the whole arranged and operating substentially as set forth.

2. The arrangement of the slotted lever A and female die m, lever B Vand male die L, in combination with spiral spring C, substantially as described. f

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hond this 13th doy of July, 1867.

' WILLIAM J. PHELPS.

Witnesses F. D. Hmrwoop, J. P. BUCKLAND. 

